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The struggle with many a rigid Logooli cultural practices

  The Logooli community is one of the deeply cultured societies – with near everything supposed to have been done as per custom – to allow another custom to follow. One example is that for a mature man (with a child or more) to be buried, there must be a house structure at home. Another is that a boy must be circumcised and nursed in father land. If maternal family decides to, the boy will have a hard time reconnecting with father people - a dent on his masculinity. There were two children who got burnt to death in a house in Nairobi. The single mother had left for night work. Elders were told that one of the children was Logooli. The other, the woman had sired with someone else. The Logooli family wanted to burry their little one and long discussed the do’s and don’ts. Of a man who died childless and the grave was placed as if he had died as a man with children. It should have been dug on the sides, the grave. A real thorn should have been thrust in his buttocks, his name go...

MOON; 27-08-2015

I promised to do an all-cycle moon documentary. But what happens when there is no passion to continue and a camera absent? It is like new diary keepers who soon lose interest in the act. But should I site the mishappenings as a reason? Absolutely not.

I woke up wobbling. I least expected sickness to continue to this day. For a week now sleep had been so rare and my body absent from me. I continued to wish sunsets never to come because loneliness would take me up.

When I saw the moon big and shiny up at the zenith I wished I had the camera. The girl with it must be paying back the experiences I had done against her. She seemed not interested to reply a text of whether she took a snap. Her response today was as ignorant as the micro-organisms eating my body from within. No problem

Just as I slept hoping today would be a better day, the moon was bright up.

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